Hardware security module

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

A hardware security module (HSM) is a physical computing device that safeguards and manages secrets (most importantly digital keys), and performs encryption and decryption functions for digital signatures, strong authentication and other cryptographic functions.

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